For billions of years, cells have perfected their biological machinery for making proteins, sending signals, and responding ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has found complex carbon based molecules in ancient dried up river deposits on Mars, adding to ...
In November 2021, Northwestern University researchers introduced an injectable new therapy, which harnessed fast-moving "dancing molecules," to repair tissues and reverse paralysis after severe spinal ...
When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This illustrates a phenomenon we also see in the tiny world of molecules. Some ...
A pair of stubborn molecules, prized because they can survive deep time, just passed an important Mars test by failing a very ...
Public repositories of metabolomics data are expanding rapidly and can be leveraged to uncover previously undescribed metabolites. Reverse metabolomics is a workflow in which thousands of small ...
A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust. This is exciting for those of us who keep lists ...